BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend is the first major British music festival of the year and always attracts big UK and worldwide artists. So if you want to see the new names who'll dominate the summer's festivals, this is the place.
This year BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend took place at Lydiard Park, Swindon on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May. With live music across four stages, music and activities from the two-day event were covered on: Radio 1, BBC Three on TV, on the Red Button, on BBC Mobile and on the Big Weekend website.
The requirement was to produce two highlights feeds, accessible via the "red button", edited packages for the BBC 3 programmes Saturday and Sunday evenings together with highlights and packages for the Radio One Big Weekend web site. Further programmes were transmitted on BBC Worldwide. The coverage and editing was in HD with 5.1 audio throughout. Hyperactive enabled this by supplying equipment and expertise. The set up consisted of five Avid Media Composer Nitris DX systems four of which were shared between BBC 3, Worldwide and Red Button. The fifth suite was rigged in the BBC interactive cabin connected to the Avid network 100m away. Shared media storage consisted of a 16 terabyte Avid Unity and Avid Interplay was included for full media asset management. The Avid system was fully integrated with the four HD EVS XT(2)'s supplied by Hyperactive. The EVS's were used to ingest feeds both from the Main Stage and the In New Music We Trust Stage. These feeds were streamed directly to Avid Storage enabling all of the editors to have immediate access to festival OB coverage together with single camera coverage shot on HDCAM and DVCAM. Finished packages were then sent back to EVS for playout. Any Avid could send back to any EVS by means of a faster than real time file transfer over gigabit ethernet. Edited pieces were played into the BBC programmes from EVS and Red Button feeds were also transmitted from EVS.
Kit List:- 5x Avid Nitris DX on PC Non-linear Editor
- 5x Yamaha 01V/96 16-32 Channel Audio Mixer
- 14x Genelec 1030A Active Monitor
- 2x Genelec 1091A Active Subwoofer
- 6x JVC DT-V1710 Picture Monitor
- 3x Tektronix WFM-700A HD-SDI Waveform Monitor
- 1x Avid Unity MediaNet 5 8TB Network Shared Storage
- 1x Avid MEDIArray XT 8TB Expansion for Unity 5.
- 1x Avid Interplay Media Management System
- 1x Avid Interplay Transfer Engine Media Management Add On
- 2x Asante 16 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
- 4x EVS XT(2) HD Production Server
- 1x EVS XFile(2) Archive Storage Gateway
- 2x Sony DSR-2000A DVCAM VTR
- 2x Harris X75 Multiformat Synchroniser
- 1x Sony SRW-5500 HDCAM-SR VTR
- 2x Sony HDW-M2000 HDCAM VTR